Nowadays, media is became the one learning process that have a relationship with the world of learning. Media is usually used as a means to facilitate and accelerate learning activities both at school and elsewhere. It is important to us as an teacher someday. Because using the media more be flexibility in order the reach all learning preferences. All the activity in the classroom or elsewhere can be “more easy” to use the media and this short proposal aims to conduct a review of the audiobook as a instructional media for modern learning.
The study will be focused on using the digital audio books can be improve listening skills and english pronounciation. Many people don’t always have time to sit down and read books. Audio books are generally recorded in audio cd and cd mp3. But, lately it can also be downloaded on the internet. Audiobooks can be enjoyed by everyone, because by having audibooks everyone can read and listen to stories everywhere. For actively listening to English audiobooks we can repeat any part of the book as many times as we want, can “read” the book as slow or fast as we want, can choose any accent or speed that we want to listen to, can listen to audiobooks any time, of course. Audiobooks are becoming more popular now.
Easy access and use of audiobooks by teachers and students contribute to teaching foreign language skills. Some previous experimental studies found that listening to audiobooks improves both reading comprehension and listening skills (Jakobs, 2006, Turker, 2010). Moreover, a good audiobook helps to capture the elements of characterization, theme, tone, and setting in the classroom (Brown, 2002). Besides, listening to audiobooks encourages independent reading (O’Day, 2002).
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Broughton, Brumfit, Flevell, Hill and Pincas (1978, p. 108) state that “A great many courses for the teaching of English to foreigners published today have taped materials to accompany them, and it is nearly always valuable to have these available to support the written text, if for no other reason— especially for the teacher who is a non-native speaker of English.” These taped materials enable also the acquisition of accurate pronunciation. Audiobooks improve students listening skills anytime, and anywhere. All participants found audiobooks useful for their pronunciation. In particular, the presence of the text and audio material together enabled participants to read and listen simultaneously.
Thus, participants have two senses involved during the learning process which makes the learning easier and more enjoyable. Hearing the correct pronunciation of the words while reading them helped students to improve their pronunciation. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of audiobooks on listening comprehension and to determine students’ views about using audiobooks in regular classroom settings. The opinion survey enabled us to understand students experiences and perspectives as well as the benefits and drawbacks of using audiobooks in foreign language learning classrooms.
The outcomes of the present study have proven that students develop positive attitudes towards audiobooks, enabling us to make some further suggestions both for students and teachers such as integration of audiobooks into the regular classroom practice, assigning homework based on audiobook usage, and setting up listening and pronunciation contest based on the audio-text. The aims for this experimental study has been to find out the potential of using the developed interactive mobile application in improving the learning skills such as vocabulary, pronunciation, listening and comprehension of the learners of the English language without the help of a teacher.
Using audiobooks as part of English studies will get the practice to become a better English speaker. There are many audiobooks to choose from, on every topic everyone, teacher and students can imagine. can find classic literature in audiobook form, English learning books or modern literature. we can listen to someone talk about dinosaurs, airports and the others—whatever interested in there’s an audiobooks for that. Research Design
A quasi experimental design analysis will be conducted in a one of Junior High School classroom in Cirebon,West Java. The class consists of 22 students, 11 from 7 grade and 11 from 8 grade (grades seven and eight). The ages of the participants range from thirteen to fourteen years old. For this research will be used the quasi experimental design, there are A Pre-Test and a Post-Test. A Pre‐Test and a Post‐Test have been performed to find out the learning abilities of students. The results of the experimental study clearly indicated that English learning skills of young students had higher statistically significant improvements as a result of using the developed application in the experimental group.
It can be concluded that the developed mobile application can be used as an educational tool in teaching English as a second language. Young students who may be interested in improving their listening, and pronunciation skills while learning English as a second language should find this mobile application enjoyable and useful. a pre-test will be conducted before the audiobooks method is given, to measure students’ abilities. Do that for 3 meetings. After that students will be given a post-test again to find out the final results to know the listening ability increase.
